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Post-Event Sports Massage

will be available at this event for triathletes (you need it!),
support staff (they work hard!), and
spectators (it’s a stressful job!).

It will be provided by the National Capital Area Sports Massage Team (NCASMT) for $1.50/minute. Sessions offered will be: 10 minutes for $15, 15 minutes for $20 (the best deal), 20 minutes for $30, and 30 minutes for $45. You can learn more about the team at (www.ncasmt.org).

Have you always wanted to sample Sports Massage?

Do you want to avoid hobbling to your car after the competition?

Would you like to stand up straight, use the stairs, and groom yourself without your quads & pecs screaming at you for days after the event?

GET A SPORTS MASSAGE!

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What is Sports Massage?

Massage is the manipulation of soft tissue (muscle, tendon, connective tissue) to encourage it to return to its normal tension. There are many types of massage and they differ in their goals, their techniques, and their audience. Sports Massage will be of most use to you as a triathlete. Sports massage can fit into your program in 3 ways: pre-event/post event, maintenance, and rehabilitation.

Pre-event sports massage is performed for 5-10 minutes within 1 hour of the start of competition. It does not replace a warm up. You should not receive your first massage at a pre-event venue because you should not do anything out of the ordinary prior to competition. Pre-event massage will increase your circulation (oxygenated tissue is the name of the game) and calm your nerves.

Post-event massage lasts for about 10-30 minutes within 4 hours of the end of the competition. Post-event massage will flush out waste products generated during the event and loosen tight muscles so that you will recover faster and return to training more quickly.

Maintenance massage is scheduled regularly as part of your training program. The focus of this massage is to balance out the effects of training, to loosen sore or tight muscles to prevent them from becoming a limiting factor in your training, to increase body awareness, and to help you recover faster from workouts.

Massage can help you rehabilitate from an injury by increasing the circulation (which nourishes and cleanses the tissue), by reducing swelling, by helping tissue return to its proper tension, and by reducing scar tissue.

Massage is not a luxury and you do deserve a massage. You are stressed, aggravated, over-stimulated by noise, and subjected to all kinds of baloney. You work, you keep house, you take care of kids or a spouse or an elderly parent. And in addition to that you are now a triathlete - you “deserve” lots of massages!